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...TurnItIn offers more than just services designed to catch students in the act of plagiarism. “It’s a tool to help students understand what plagiarism is and how to avoid it,” Kay said. She added that the company’s Web site “can help educate students and protect them from having their own work plagiarized by others...
...Election Day in 2004, the member networks and subscribing news organizations received the exit poll data as it came in during the early afternoon. So preliminary is this first wave of data that pollsters do not consider it conclusive; to avoid making inaccurate predictions, the networks are careful to wait until the second wave of data that comes...
...avoid that kind of leak this year, the NEP will implement its new quarantine policy. On Election Day, the 12 pollsters representing the six media organizations will be confined to one room, where they will have secured access to the polling data. According to an NEP spokeswoman, the pollsters will be monitored by three NEP-chosen polling experts, and the pollsters will not be allowed to use outside communication, including cell phones, laptops, BlackBerries and Treos. Lenski declined to be more specific, stating only that the room is in an "undisclosed location...
...best plan, after all, is to avoid total incompetence...
...those sensitive folks afraid to risk upsetting non-Christians by saying "Merry Christmas," and instead wish them a "Happy Holiday" - and what holiday would that be, I wonder? - then the salutation "Happy Halloween" should be just as incendiary. Today, to avoid offense, you'd better say, "Happy Holideen...